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DIED. Mary Coyle Chase, 74, a Colorado-born playwright and mother of three sons who wrote the 1945 Pulitzer-prizewinning play Harvey, an enchanting tale about Elwood P. Dowd, a gentle lush whose best friend is Harvey, a 6-ft.-plus talking rabbit that only Elwood could see and hear but two generations of Americans adored; of a heart attack; in Denver. A reporter for the Rocky Mountain News before she switched to playwriting, Chase was notably unsuccessful until Harvey suddenly brought her fame and fortune with its 1,775 Broadway performances and its remake as a movie starring Jimmy...
...Consumer brightened. Hey, I've got a Paper Chase episode...
...surge was by no means uniform, but it came, remarkably enough, amid signs of a slowing economy. Last week, for example, General Motors said it had lost a stunning $468 million during the third quarter. The Chase Manhattan Corp. of New York, however, reported a jump of 20.1% per share in third-quarter profits. Total quarterly earnings were $116.1 million, the highest in Chase's 182-year history. Bankers Trust and Chicago's Continental Illinois did almost as well, with respective increases of 15.6% and 16.4%. The biggest rise of all, 227%, was racked up by First Chicago...
...branches spread throughout the nation's most populous state. On the other hand, the sky-high rates have devastated the corporate bond market, where major businesses traditionally turn for financing, and forced companies to try to scrape by on short-term credit from banks like Bankers Trust and Chase, which have aggressively sought corporate business. Nationwide, short-term commercial debt has risen by 26.1% in the past six months...
Beneath the entertaining detective-chase motif, however, lurks the shadow of the seemier aspects of art acquisition. Even Hoving cannot help but allude to that most popular of methods of removing a piece from the bosom of its native country--smuggling. Harry Sperling, "The world's leading expert in arranging that almost any work of art you've seen, any place in the world, suddenly turns up safe and sound in Switzerland, eminently exportable to the United States," explains his technique to Hoving, a quick study...